Spatiotemporal Assessment and Modelling of Roof-Harvested Rainwater Quality in Kigezi Highlands, Uganda by Philip, Tibenderana, Moses, Nduhira Twesigye-omwe, Agwe, Tobby Michael, Abdulkadir, Taofeeq S, Denis, Byamukama

“…These situations require that water resources be satisfactorily managed in terms of quantity and quality to meet the current demands and attain future sustainability.…”
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Cementitious Spray Dryer Ash-Tire Fiber Material for Maximizing Waste Diversion by Charles E. Riley, Rebecca A. Atadero, John W. van de Lindt, Paul R. Heyliger

“…SDA material does not usually meet the existing standards for use as a pozzolan in Portland cement concrete due to its characteristically high sulfur content, and thus unlike fly ash, it is rarely put to beneficial use. …”
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Relativistic model of an anisotropic star with Bose-Einstein dark matter density profile in f(T) gravity by Samprity Das, Prabir Rudra, Surajit Chattopadhyay

“…The derived solutions meet the energy conditions, the causality conditions, and the required conditions on the stability factor and adiabatic index, indicating that they are physically well-behaved and represent the physical and stable matter configuration. …”
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HPPQ: A Parallel Package Queries Processing Approach for Large-Scale Data by Meihui Shi, Derong Shen, Tiezheng Nie, Yue Kou, Ge Yu

“…The rapid increase in data volume means that traditional methods of package queries find it difficult to meet the increasing requirements. To solve this problem, a novel optimization method of package queries (HPPQ) is proposed in this paper. …”
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The Action Control Model for Robotic Fish Using Improved Extreme Learning Machine by XueXi Zhang, ShuiBiao Chen, ShuTing Cai, XiaoMing Xiong, Zefeng Hu

“…It proves that the proposed model can make best use of the real-time information of robotic fish and water polo and derive fulfilling action strategy in various scenarios, which meet the requirements of motion control for robotic fish.…”
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Study of Sea Water Quality Status in the Saugi Island Area, Pangkep Regency: Analysis of the Impact on Marine Biota by Nasrul Nasrul, Medar M Nur, Rara Sri Wahyuni, Nuryadi Nuryadi, Muhammad Faiz Pratama, Wangi Suci Ananda, Isna Sulistia Ningsih, Rosmini Maru

“…The research results show that of the 10 research stations, only station 4 meets several seawater quality standards. The presence of waste at each station plays a significant role in reducing the value of quality parameters. …”
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A Survey on Algorithms for Intelligent Computing and Smart City Applications by Zhao Tong, Feng Ye, Ming Yan, Hong Liu, Sunitha Basodi

“…The new urban framework, the smart city, provides excellent opportunities to meet these challenges, while solving urban problems at the same time. …”
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Data Analysis and Results of the Radiation-Tolerant Collaborative Computer On-Board OPTOS CubeSat by Alberto Martín-Ortega, Santiago Rodríguez, José R. de Mingo, Sergio Ibarmia, Joaquín Rivas, Sergio López-Buedo, Celia López-Ongil, Marta Portela-García

“…This requirement evolves faster than the ability of the manufacturers to develop better space-qualified processors. To meet the strong requirements, the National Institute of Aerospace Technology has developed a distributed on-board computer based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS). …”
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Mechanical Characteristics of Asphalt Pavement Pothole Maintenance by Fengjun Zhao, Yuhang Tang, Jianjun Wu, Zhi Huang, Mingyue Gao, Yanliang Long

“…But due to the construction quality problem, the compacting degree of asphalt mixture may not be enough and the void ratio of asphalt mixture may not meet the requirements, resulting in the premature damage of the potholes after repair. …”
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Development of Nanozyme-Labeled Biomimetic Immunoassay for Determination of Sulfadiazine Residue in Foods by Jingbo He, Li Zhang, Longhua Xu, Feifan Kong, Zhixiang Xu

“…The excessive use and ingestion of residues of sulfonamides harm the human body and the environment. To meet the requirements of the maximum residue limit specified by the Ministry of Agriculture of China, a rapid detection method urgently needs to be developed. …”
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Enhanced YOLOv8-based method for space debris detection using cross-scale feature fusion by Yang Guo, Xianlong Yin, Yao Xiao, Zhengxu Zhao, Xu Yang, Chenggang Dai

“…The experimental results show that the detection accuracy and speed of the method are improved, and that they can meet the requirements of space debris detection in complex backgrounds.…”
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Disseminating Authorized Content via Data Analysis in Opportunistic Social Networks by Chenguang Kong, Guangchun Luo, Ling Tian, Xiaojun Cao

“…Then, we propose our SCP-based Dissemination (SCPD) algorithm to calculate the optimum number of content copies to disseminate when two users meet. Our dataset based simulation shows that our SCPD algorithm is effective and efficient to disseminate the authorized content in IOSNs.…”
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Determination of 14 Human Milk Oligosaccharides in Infant Formula Milk Powder by Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry by YE Mengwei, HUANG Qian, FENG Lifeng, HUANG Yuan, CAI Xiaoming, GAO Yu, WANG Tianxi, PAN Cheng

“…The developed method is characterized by fast analysis speed, high sensitivity and good accuracy, and meets the requirements for the rapid detection of the 14 HMOs in infant formula milk powder.…”
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The Influence of Complex Subway Station Construction on High Retaining Walls and Appropriate Countermeasures by Kai Wang, Zhaoping Li, Xuezhao Xu, Leilei Shi, Fanbo Zhang

“…The joint control method of anchor cables combined with waist beams, isolation piles, and deep hole grouting makes the deformation meet the target, and according to this measure, a concept of joint control aiming at the influence of the “source,” “propagation,” and “object” is proposed, which can provide a reference for similar projects with a great difficulty in deformation control.…”
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Development, Characterization, and Optimization of Protein Level in Date Bars Using Response Surface Methodology by Muhammad Nadeem, Salim-ur-Rehman, Faqir Muhammad Anjum, Mian Anjum Murtaza, Ghulam Mueen-ud-Din

“…This project was designed to produce a nourishing date bar with commercial value especially for school going children to meet their body development requirements. Protein level of date bars was optimized using response surface methodology (RSM). …”
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Discriminant Model of Coal Mining Microseismic and Blasting Signals Based on Waveform Characteristics by Baolin Li, Nan Li, Enyuan Wang, Xuelong Li, Zhibo Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yue Niu

“…The results show that the accuracy of the discriminant model is more than 85%, which can meet the requirements of MS monitoring at coal mines.…”
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From the idea to the user: a pragmatic multifaceted approach to testing occupational exoskeletons by Christian Di Natali, Tommaso Poliero, Matteo Sposito, Vasco Fanti, Sergio Leggieri, Darwin G. Caldwell

“…This work supports the hypothesis that sector/task-specific exoskeletons when tailored to meet the needs of workers and the work tasks can produce demonstrable benefits in real industrial sectors.…”
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System Design of an Online Marketplace Towards the Standardisation of Sustainable Energy Efficiency Investments in Buildings by Ioanna Andreoulaki, Aikaterini Papapostolou, Daniela Stoian, Konstantinos Kefalas, Vangelis Marinakis

“…The paper focuses on the functional description of the system design of the ENERGATE platform by defining the architecture, components, modules, interfaces, and structured data, as well as highlighting the requirements of potential platform users and design principles to meet the necessary requirements while ensuring security, reliability, and effectiveness.…”
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Soil Physicochemical and Biological Properties of Paddy-Upland Rotation: A Review by Wei Zhou, Teng-Fei Lv, Yong Chen, Anthony P. Westby, Wan-Jun Ren

“…Paddy-upland rotation is an unavoidable cropping system for Asia to meet the increasing demand for food. The reduction in grain yields has increased the research interest on the soil properties of rice-based cropping systems. …”
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What’s in a name? Memory NK cells for cancer immunotherapy by William J Murphy, Robert J Canter, Sean J Judge, Megan C Purl

“…Nonetheless, despite unresolved questions about the immunobiology of naïve and memory NK cells, the application of memory NK cells to the clinic for cancer and other indications has gathered steam to meet the unmet need for novel immunotherapies. Recent work from Arellano-Ballestero et al highlights this evolving field and the current state of the art with memory NK cells. …”
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